## TELEGRAM

Source: PSS vol. 50

TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE EASTERN FRONT

Issue the same directive
through the Central Committee

Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front

To Lashevich, Yurenev, Gusev, Rosengolts,
Smirnov, Muralov

A serious deterioration near Petrograd and a breakthrough in the south force us to withdraw even more troops from your front.

There is no other way. You must transition to more revolutionary military work, breaking with habit. Mobilize comprehensively in the front-line zone all persons from 18 to 45 years of age, set them the task of capturing the nearest large factories, such as Motoviliha, Minyar, promising to release them once they have taken them, assigning two or three men to each rifle, calling upon them to drive Kolchak from the Urals. Mobilize 75 percent of Party and trade union members.

There is no other way out—you must transition to revolutionary work. Discuss this partly together with Kamenev*, how to carry it out, and report on what measures you are undertaking.

Lenin

Written June 9, 1919

First published January 21,
1937 in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 21

Printed from the manuscript